Hypnosis has actually long been used to reduce tension and anxiety and now we have the evidence that it works. Research carried out by Dr Spiegal, Psychiatrist of Stanford University, specified that there is now scientific evidence that, under hypnosis, something takes place in the brain that does not occur generally.
When you experience hypnosis, you are not in a trance. You experience deep relaxation. You experience this state of relaxation in both your mind and body.
This state is accomplished by guidance offered by the therapist to enable you to peaceful your mind and accomplish relaxation at levels not generally experienced.
Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
Using hypnosis for tension and anxiety is reliable, as it creates a state of deep relaxation. In all stress and anxiety conditions, there is one common aspect-- getting a tension reaction in situations where it is not required. It is the stress response that is responsible for the physical symptoms experienced in the body.
How does it work?
In my own programs you are guided by myself into a state of deep relaxation. You do not need to do anything, simply listen.
Everybody have the capability to experience deep relaxation, however for the majority of us, our head gets in the way. We attempt to unwind by watching TELEVISION, sport, walking, however usually our head is engaged. Believing, examining, talking. In the directed hypnosis, I help you to disengage with your idea procedures, and guide you into relaxation. You are not in a hypnotic trance, you are still in control.
Throughout this deep relaxation, when your mind is quiet, your mind is more open to change. I will assist you to alter your emotional actions and encourage your body and mind to produce a relaxation reaction.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is the response you get when your brain finds a 'hazard.' Once a threat is detected, your tension response is triggered, and it is this 'tension response' that offers you the uncomfortable feelings in your body, and causes your mind to race.
In order to understand what stress and anxiety is, I find it useful to draw from evolutionary psychology as it allows me to see that anxiety is an adaptive action that must work, but our intelligence gets in the method! Let me explain.
In the really brief video above, I begin by showing you how your brain need to respond when it identifies a threat. Risk identified, brain provides you the energy to get ready for danger and you calm down when the threat has passed.
what is stress and anxiety? caveman
If you think how we have actually developed in time, we were when prey to other bigger, much faster animals.
Those early people who could detect 'risks' rapidly and respond properly were most likely to endure, and therefore more likely to hand down their adaptive 'danger detection system' to their children.
As we evolved, we lost the threat from predators, however kept our danger detection system. It's like we still have this primitive threat detection system, however are now using it to discover risks in the workplace, or anywhere we take place to be!
modern stress and anxiety
The system that assisted primitive man out when he was under threat, being chased by a big predator, is the very same system that is reacting to contemporary 'threats' such a feeling under pressure at work!
How does this threat detection system produce stress and anxiety?
In primitive man, the stress reaction is activated once a threat (predator) is detected. The stress reaction provides him the energy to eliminate the predator or flee-- hence why we discuss the fight or flight action.
When he is out of harms method, his body calms down once again. This fast burst of energy, in my mind is not anxiety, rather it is more akin to fear and this is an important distinction, as I shall describe now.
Modern man identifies a threat, such as worrying about cash and his tension response gets triggered. He still gets this big burst of energy, however what he is now experiencing is stress and anxiety, as opposed to fear.
Fear is where there is a real danger present (a genuine hazard) and anxiety is where you are fretted about a 'threat' that might take place in the future.
What causes stress and anxiety?
There are different paths in your brain that can result in the stress and anxiety you experience, however each include an alarm bell being triggered to activate your tension action. The alarm bell can be triggered by a 'thinking' route, where your thoughts and worries can make you distressed, and by a quicker route, where your brain keeps in mind to be distressed.
Start using hypnosis right now to soothe your mind.